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Likelihood imputation

Likelihood imputation
Likelihood imputation
The method of likelihood imputation is devised under the framework of latent structure models where the observation is a statistic of the complete data which can only be specified on a latent basis. The imputed data set is chosen to differ least from the observed one in their information contents—a concept with general implications for the analysis of incomplete-data. In contrast to the standard conditional-mean single imputation, our procedure depends on an entire likelihood region instead of any single point in it, and yields consistent parameter estimators nevertheless. We explain its implementations and illustrate with data from panel surveys and linear regression with censorship. We also discuss its potentials in sensitivity analysis.
0303-6898
401-414
Zhang, Li-Chun
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Zhang, Li-Chun
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Zhang, Li-Chun (1998) Likelihood imputation. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 25 (2), 401-414. (doi:10.1111/1467-9469.00112).

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The method of likelihood imputation is devised under the framework of latent structure models where the observation is a statistic of the complete data which can only be specified on a latent basis. The imputed data set is chosen to differ least from the observed one in their information contents—a concept with general implications for the analysis of incomplete-data. In contrast to the standard conditional-mean single imputation, our procedure depends on an entire likelihood region instead of any single point in it, and yields consistent parameter estimators nevertheless. We explain its implementations and illustrate with data from panel surveys and linear regression with censorship. We also discuss its potentials in sensitivity analysis.

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Published date: June 1998
Organisations: Social Statistics & Demography

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Local EPrints ID: 356396
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/356396
ISSN: 0303-6898
PURE UUID: ee549a9e-4200-4b1e-bd3b-1e0eab289ebd
ORCID for Li-Chun Zhang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3944-9484

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:45

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